Anne & George Majic
Anne Majic has taken a slight detour from the typical self-help niche surrounding grief to write a love letter to her community – the people who comforted and sustained her in the minutes, days, months, and years following the loss of her beloved husband of 36 years, George; her hometown of Fernie – where she spent the majority of her married life with George as they raised their four children; and to the writers who nudged, inspired, and guided her in creating this memoir.
Through the pages of her book, Losing George – Stories of Grief and Coming Together – each chapter of sections 1, 3 and 5 is named for a specific person – she details the unique ways in which each person brought her solace and support. In the early days, it was as simple as her daughter’ s hand leading her to the couch in the living room on the night George died. Later, it was in the magnanimous gesture of a housecleaning session from Shirley, a fellow mom, with whom Anne had once been connected but hadn’ t seen in recent times. That gesture turned into its own lesson later when Shirley suffered a loss and Anne was able to pay the kind
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George Samuel Majic, Q. C., was born in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, on Christmas Eve, 1943. After receiving his law degree from the University of Toronto, he moved to Vancouver with his new bride, Anne. In 1971, after a short time in Kimberley, the couple moved to Fernie so George could establish his own law practice. George was awarded the honour of Queen’ s Counsel in 1992, and served his community as City Councillor, School Trustee, sports coach, fundraiser, chorister, and as a member of many clubs and committees.
In the 1990s, then-librarian Diane Sharp raised the idea of repurposing the former Customs and Post Office Building on